Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-05
RECORD OF / YEAR
Chronology Of the Twelvemonth
That is Just Past.
A PERIOD OF PROGRESS.
THE LABOR MOVEMENT.
STRIKES THAT RESULTED FOR GOOD
OR FOR ILL.
A PERIOD OF PROGRESS.

OR ET0tt tGGs
81 Six hundred and fifty morocco workers
of Wilmington quit work.
81. Strike of Cohoes spinners ended About
1000 persons affected.
APRIL.
/. The strike on the Gould roads has been
resumed on account of the refusal of the COM
pany to reinstate all the strikers.
8. Bloody Saturday" at Fort Worth,
Texas. Strikers resist the movement of
trains, firing a volley from Winchester rifles
into posse Of deputy sheriffs, killing one and
mortally wounding two others. The officers
replied with revolvers killing one striker.
5. Mr.. Powderly formally recalls his order
to the Missouri Pacific strikers 10 resume
work.
g. Deputy sheriffs in East St Louis fire
into crowd, killing seven persons only one
of whom was O striker.
IA. Powderly makes an appeal to Gould for
the settlement OF the southwestern strike.
Gould replies, justifying his action and re-
fusing to grant the request OF the knights for
arbitration.
is. A general tie up ordered on the New
York City Third Avenue Street railway.
16. Martin Irons, the leader in the great
southwestern strike is, with three others, in-
dicted by the grand grand jury at st. Louis,
Is. Widow LandgraR boycotted in New
York city for employing non-union bakers
10. The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, wreck car and have q
short but savage fight with the police.
10. The great tie up of the New York city
street railroads is off, with the exception of
the Third avenue line.
20. Trains are running without molestation
on the Gould roads, although the strikers
still profess to be confident Of ultimate sue
cess
90. The house committee at Washington
begins its investigation of the strike on the
Gould roads. II was continued for some time.
%. Sugar house employees at Williamsburg,
N. Y. on strike for an increase of wages
26 Thirty-ive members of the New York
Tailors' union indicted by the grand jury for
boycotting.
81. The striking operatives of the Missouri
Car company have resumed work The Bal
timore street car strike has also come to ali
end.
27 The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, put on free coaches for tue
accommodation of persons who would other
wise be compelled to ride in the cars.
30. Chairman O'Donnell, Secretary Best,
and Graham, Hughes and Downing, of the
Empire Protective association, indicted by
the grand jury at New York for ordering the
tie up of the Third avenu@car
MAY
i. O0lcdgO JFa0eS uIllO0S demand q I1nIfOfTQ
working day OF eight hours, without reduc-
tion of wages The same demands are made
in many other cities.
l. Forty thousand men i'm Chicago 60 on
strike for eight hours. Strikes for similar
cause are general all over the country
A. An attempt by the Chicago police to dis
perse meeting of Anarchists was followed
by a riot in which dynamite bomb was
thrown by the Anarchists among the police,
killing six and wounding sixty-one
5. Rioters fired upon and several killed by
the state militia at Milwaukee, Wis.
s. More shooting occurred at Chicago be-
tween the police and Anarchists, and leading
rioters were arrested.
6. Milwaukee rioters indicted.
Q. The pianomakers of New York have
abandoned their demand for reduction to
eight hours day.
10. Big strike at Chicago ended.
10. About $1,000 girls, employees OF the
Troy, n. r, collar and cuff factories, locked
out by the manufacturers on account Of the
strike OF the laundry girls at George p. Ide e.
Co. S establishment.
"a Eight thousand tailors locked out by
the Boss Tailors' union, New York city.
JUNE.
2. John Most, convicted Of melting to riot,
was sentenced TO imprisonment at hard labor
for one year and to pay a fine Of $500 at New
York.
3. The convention of Knights of Labor, at
OADIctduu, E1OSeus Inc 01uorE0ceS Win the
trades unions were not satisfactorily adjusted
4. Female members Of the families of the
striking Chicago railroad men stop trains by
standing upon the tracks
5. Fourteen thousand horse car men, Of
New York, Brooklyn and Long Island City,
quit work.
6. The Empire Protective association gives
mp the fight against the Third Avenue road.
II At the meeting Of the Brotherhood OF
Telegraphers, az Kansas City, it was decided
TO join the knights Of Labor
% The Lake Shore switchmen at Chicago.
out on strike. became very demonstratfve; q
train Of cars thrown on the track
JULY.
81 Union employees OF fourteen New YORK
cigar factories locked out
3. The men who distributed boycott circu-
lars referring 70 the Widow LanderafTa
bakery were convicted at New York. before
Judge Barrett, and sentenced 70 terms OF inn
pris0nment of from ten to thirty dave
25 The National Cigarmaiefs' union with.
drew from the knights Of Labor.
AU8UsT
16 The cigarmakers Of New York. who
Ind been on strike for some 4ime. determined
20 resume work
% Tho eight Chicago Anarchists who were
throwing wer0 convicted. Spies, Schwab,
Fielden. Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Lingg
were sentenced to death. Neebe GOT fifteen
years IN prison.
2s. Broadway surface read tied up. The
tle up Was Of short duration.
6EP1E1EJER
lNrre hundred ard thirty plumbers
locked cut in New York city because Of
difference De6sFeen them and fhe boSses over